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Considering Hip & Knee Replacement

July 29, 2011 by

[HTML1] It wasn’t that long ago when there was no surgical option for anyone suffering from the pain of a joint damaged through accident or overuse. Your Health Matters host Christopher Springmann looks at the alternatives with Dr. Bryce Allen, an orthopaedist with Scott & White Healthcare. Dr. Allen talks about the discussion he has with patients — both older and younger — who are deciding whether hip and knee replacement is the right option to improve their quality of life. “I generally tell people that I can’t give them the knee they had when they were 18 again,” he admits. “What I can give them is a knee that is painless in activities of daily living that will allow them to get back to most of the lower impact activities, things like gold, cycling, walking. And in some cases, we’re able to see people perform at higher levels.”

More about Bryce Allen
Dr. Bryce C. Allen is an orthopaedic surgeon at Schoot & White Healthcare’s Temple, Texas clinic. He earned a B.S. from Rice University and an M.D. from Baylor College of Medicine, both in Houston, Texas. He trained in orthopaedic surgery and adult reconstruction at University of Utah, Salt Lake City and won the 2007 Frank B. Smith Memorial Award for Outstanding Resident Research from the North Pacific Orthopaedic Society. Dr. Allen joined Scott & White Healthcare in 2008 with patient care emphases on hip dysplasia and impingement, primary and revision hip and knee arthroplasty, and joint preserving surgery of the hip and knee.
More about Scott & White Healthcare 
When Arthur C. Scott, M.D. and Raleigh R. White Jr., M.D. began their medical practice in Temple, Texas in 1897, they shared one fundamental conviction: medicine must serve the people. Today, Scott & White Healthcare is a fully integrated health system — the largest multi-specialty practice in Texas and the sixth largest group practice in the nation. Scott & White employs more than 1,000 health care providers and research scientists who care for patients covering 25,000 square miles across Central Texas.

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About Christopher Springmann

Christopher Springmann is Executive Producer and Senior Correspondent of Life, Love and Health, the award-winning health and wellness program that reaches millions daily on multiple news, talk and sports channels including Sirius XM, CNN, FOX, NPR affiliates, American Forces Network, and HealthRadio.net.

Life, Love and Health is also Mr. Springmann’s latest endeavor in a journey of “creative convergence” that started as a photographer for Time, Fortune, National Geographic and Smithsonian magazines. He moved into writing leadership profiles for Chief Executive and California CEO magazines, which in turn provided the inspiration for creating Life, Love and Health: to fulfill the unmet need of telling America’s health story. Mr. Springmann meets this need in entertaining and emotionally engaging ways, with the authentic voices of real people, including a diverse group of doctors and nurses, patients and their families, plus researchers and innovators in the health-and-wellness field. He relies on the credibility and persuasiveness of people’s passionate storytelling to get the point across. People identify with the experiences of others and are encouraged to take positive, attainable actions to improve their personal and family health.

Christopher is also the Host of Life, Love and Health on WomensRadio. Life, Love and Health seeks to ultimately make a difference in people’s lives by encouraging individuals to take positive, attainable actions to improve their personal and family health.